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Foxconn stages anti-suicide rallies
Also announces plans to increase its workforce in China to 1 million employees
Thousands of workers at Foxconn's giant Shenzhen industrial park turned out Wednesday for what the company billed as a "Treasure Your Life, Love Your Family, Care for Each Other to Build a Wonderful Future" motivational event, but which the Western press quickly characterized as an anti-suicide rally.
Foxconn, a publicly traded subsidiary of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 18, 2010 2:07 PM ET -
Apple investigating Foxconn suicides
A flurry of public relations activity in China after the ninth fatal fall this year
[UPDATE: A tenth Hon Hai employee -- a 23-year-old man -- jumped to his death from the seventh floor of a workers dormitory only hours after Hon Hai executives took journalists on an unprecedented tour of one of their plants and promised to outfit the dorms with safety nets.]
Terry Gou, the Taiwanese tycoon who founded Hon MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 26, 2010 7:15 AM ET -
Reporter roughed up by Apple supplier
Kicked and dragged for taking photos of a Foxconn plant from a public road in China
Reuters' report Wednesday about the lengths to which Apple (AAPL) and its suppliers will go to guard Steve Jobs' secrets has everything: metal detectors, fingerprint scanners, product head-fakes, lawsuits, multimillion-dollar fines, a suicide, and employees afraid to breathe a word about what they do, even to their wives.
But the highpoint of the piece is a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 17, 2010 6:35 PM ET -
Apple tablet rumor round-up
Days before its expected unveiling, details of dubious provenance are pouring in
With Apple (AAPL) set to reveal its "latest creation" Wednesday, new rumors surface almost hourly. We'll try to stay on top of them. [UPDATED Tuesday. See below.]
The rendering at right created by Flickr user Fotoboer.nl last August is "strikingly close" to the real thing, people "familiar with the device" tell AppleInsider's Kasper Jade.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 22, 2010 7:10 AM ET
Apple is building two versions, one that MOREPosted in: Apple, AT&T, Broadcom, Hon Hai, iSlate, LG Display, Steve Jobs, Tablets, Time Inc., Verizon -
Apple execs reportedly flying to China
Either there's a last-minute hitch that requires high-level intervention, or preparations to sell iPhones in China have entered their final stages.
"Senior officials from Apple Inc are to visit China this week, and they haven't arrived in Beijing yet," an unnamed "informed source" told the website Sina.com Monday night.
"Their visit aims to visit (sic) senior officials of China Unicom and discuss with them how iPhone should enter Chinese market," the source MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 4, 2009 10:58 AM ET
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